Small Dictionaries and Curiosity
Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 January 2017
- ISBN 9780198785019
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 239x167x26 mm
- Weight 622 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book tells the story of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. It explores not just the languages and the wordlists themselves, but also the lives of those who created them and their motivations.
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Small Dictionaries and Curiosity tells a story which has not been told before, that of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. These wordlists were collected by people who were curious about the unrecorded or little-known languages they heard around them. Between them, they document more than 40 language varieties, from a Basque-Icelandic pidgin of the North Atlantic to the Kalmyk language of the lower Volga.
The book gives an account of about 90 of these dictionaries and wordlists, some of them single-page jottings and some of them full-sized printed books, paying attention to their content and their physical form alike. It explores the kinds of curiosity and imagination by which their makers were moved: the lover of all languages hearing new voices in an inn; the speaker of a dying language recording his linguistic memories; the patriot deploying his lexicographical findings in the service of an emerging nation. It offers an encounter with the diverse voices of the entirety of post-medieval Europe, turning away from the people of the courts and universities whose language was documented in big dictionaries to listen to people who did not speak the languages of power: the people of remote places and dying communities; the illiterate poor, settled or homeless; migrants from the edges of Europe and beyond.
Offers a panoramic survery of a little-known chapter in the overlapping histories of linguistics ... Considine's work resurrects these almost forgotten practices and their fascinating results, and might even point the way towards a new oral history of early modern Europe.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Curiosity
Western lexicographers in the lands of the Mongols
Curiosity and lexicography from Petrarch to Leibniz
The history of lexicography and the history of curiosity
Part II: The long sixteenth century
The first curiosity-driven wordlists: Rotwelsch
The broadening tradition: wordlists of other cryptolects
The curiosity-driven lexicography of a whole language: Romani
Weakly codified languages and lexicography in the sixteenth century
Curiosity-driven lexicography in the sixteenth century
Part III: The long seventeenth century
Languages and regional varieties
Natural history and lexicography: John Ray and his friends
Ray's Collection of English words
Ray's German contemporaries and successors
Edward Lhuyd: The making of a lexicographer
Edward Lhuyd, travelling lexicographer
Edward Lhuyd's Glossography
Part IV: The long eighteenth century
Polyglot collections from Gessner to Leibniz
Witsen, Leibniz, and the turn to Inner Eurasia
Strahlenberg and the lexicography of Inner Eurasia
Early wordlists of Scandinavian regionalisms
Early wordlists of Finnish and Sámi
Johan Ihre and Swedish lexicography
Dying languages
Old Prussian and Polabian
Cornish and Manx
Part V: Into the nineteenth century
Dictionaries of Scottish Gaelic in the century of Ossian
Bardic dictionaries: Faroese, Serbian, and Breton
Lexicography and national epic in Finland
Conclusion: Writing the history of lexicography
